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PostX Gnu/Linux 0.9 is released

Plenty of things changed, minimalism and functionality remained.

All the material is here: https://www.techtimejourney.net/PostX_09/

Here is a mandatory screenshot. Remember to read the release notes in detail. There might be small manual adjustments you need to make. Also, at the end of this post there is a part that you should run as a script, to fix some issues that came apparent after this release. These issues will be addressed in future builds.

F6 key pressed: Tint2 and clock with a day appearing.

Important0: Spin-FM/sfm no trash found: mkdir -p .local/share/Trash/files

Important1: https://github.com/postman721/Cyberpunk-Dark-Volume-OSD-On-Screen-Display/blob/main/README.md

The wandering keyboard issue.

Keyboard is not a fixed entity and thus its numbering will move upon fresh install. This will do harm to osd. Here is a fix for it.

sudo apt install evtest #Install evtest

sudo evtest #Find your keyboard

sudo nano /usr/share/osd.py #Open osd.py

KEYBOARD_DEVICE = “/dev/input/event4” #Modify the number to match the device number of keyboard.

Exit Openbox and login again.

Important2: Fix for sources and troublesome firmware. Save the script below, for example, script.sh. Then do sudo bash script.sh and run it. It will fix the sources list and remove a troublesome firmware. Notice that Nvidia part is only needed when Lightdm or other X resources are stopped and you are actually installing Nvidia proprietary from nvidia.com



#!/bin/bash

# Script to remove raspi-firmware, purge Debian Nvidia drivers, and set up sources for Nvidia and non-free firmware

# 1. Remove raspi-firmware (for Raspberry Pi users)
echo "Removing raspi-firmware..."
sudo apt-get remove --purge -y raspi-firmware

# 2. Remove Debian Nvidia drivers if present - needed only when using proprietary drivers from nvidia.com
#echo "Removing Debian's Nvidia drivers..."
#sudo apt-get remove --purge -y nvidia*

# 3. Overwrite the apt sources list with the new repositories
echo "Overwriting the apt sources list..."

cat <<EOL | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main non-free-firmware contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main non-free-firmware contrib non-free

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main non-free-firmware contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main non-free-firmware contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ bookworm-security main non-free-firmware contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ bookworm-security main non-free-firmware contrib non-free

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports main non-free-firmware contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports main non-free-firmware contrib non-free
EOL

# 4. Update the package list
echo "Updating package list..."
sudo apt-get update

echo "Setup complete."



PostX Gnu/Linux landing page moves to AWS and PostX Gnu/Linux 0.6 packaging is about to begin

PostX Gnu/Linux page on Techtimejourney is now pointing to AWS. The new page was built with Python Flask framework and is more optimized than its ancestor, which can still be found here.

On other news, PostX Gnu/Linux 0.6 packaging is about to begin. I hope to complete repository upgrades in a few days. After that it is all about compiling things together. I am still hopeful that PostX Gnu/Linux 0.6 will be done and released before the end of 2019.

Added notice. Also the About section has now been moved to AWS.The old About page is still available at: https://www.techtimejourney.net/about/

Added notice 2: Programming projects page is also now served via AWS.

The old page is still available:here

Techtimejourney will still continue to serve content as https and on AWS side https is also a future plan to undertake during 2020.